[oak perl] ASCII Art Forgeries
Belden Lyman
blyman at iii.com
Mon Dec 8 10:55:27 CST 2003
Of course, everyone knows that the true ASCII art masters
tended to re-use their canvases. If you look closely at
the obfuscated Perl camel (surely you've seen the shirt from
think geek) you can see a revolving earth ASCIImation.
Belden (who never figured out that revolving globe nonsense)
George Woolley wrote:
> Joshua,
>
> I hadn't thought of cheating on the ASCII art.
> I don't know what Marsee's intent was,
> so I don't know how much of a problem that is.
> Hm, Marsee does say "your original rendition".
>
> I enjoy the idea of ASCII art forgeries.
> I'm imagining a museum of ASCII art forgeries.
> Curator:
> "And over here we have an excellent forgery of an early Tony Monroe.
> Only an expert would know it's a forgery.
> The giveaway is the overuse of consonants."
>
> George
>
> P.S.
> If any of you have done ASCII art forgeries of O'Reilly animals
> and feel like it,
> I'd suggest sending them off to Marsee with a note.
>
>
> On Saturday 06 December 2003 2:07 pm, Joshua Wait wrote:
> ...
>
>>P.S. Wouldn't be easy to cheat on the ASCII art
>>submission? There are several free plug-ins for
>>creating ASCII art from an image or even video clip.
>
>
>
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